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Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks June · Kites, Old World Vultures, Eagles, and Hawks · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

Short-toed Eagle (Circaetus gallicus)
Tisha Mukherjee, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

Short-toed Eagle: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

Short-toed Eagle has been recorded in 11 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (0%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in June.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
NY30Westmorland and Furness, England12023unverified
NC70Highland, Scotland32022unverified
NC71Highland, Scotland22022unverified
NC60Highland, Scotland12022unverified
TR34Kent, England12022unverified
TQ43East Sussex, England592013 to 2014unverified
SY99Dorset, England232014unverified
TQ42East Sussex, England202014unverified
SU30Hampshire, England42014unverified
TQ22West Sussex, England12014unverified
SU20Hampshire, England12014unverified

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